To mark the 100th anniversary of the PPIE, videographer Scott Stark has taken the full collection of stereoview images and turned it into “Shimmering Spectacles,” a video installation which can be seen after dark in the windows of the California Historical Society on Mission Street

“Shimmering Spectacles” by Scott Stark. Photo by Adrienne Finelli.

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The black and whites from 1915 are comingled with color images of the same locations shot by Stark. They mix together into a Then and Now collage that can be seen from dusk to 11 pm or midnight, through April 16.

Called “Shimmering Spectacles,’ is is part of “City Rising: San Francisco and the 1915 World’s Fair,” a year-long series of shows dedicated to the Exposition built on the Marina District.

Stark is with Optic Flare, the media artists who put on a show at the Palace of Fine Arts, at the opening weekend Feb. 20. Also recently lighted to honor the fair centennial is the Ferry Building. So it you are in the vicinity of 3rd and Mission to see the video, it is worth the effort to walk one block north to Market Street and turn east to the tower lights spelling out “1915” in deference to the World’s Fair.